MorphoAI

Software tool for designing robots and machines

morpho.ai

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Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals

Updated Jul 29, 2026

Overview

MorphoAI is a New York-based, YC-backed deep-tech startup building AI-powered computational design software for robots and machines. Its platform turns parts, tasks, and constraints into verified manufacturable designs, CAD outputs, and BOMs in minutes. Public funding figures conflict across sources: LinkedIn shows $655k of disclosed funding, while company and YC materials also cite a £2.5M ARIA grant and other rounds.

Primary product

AI-powered computational design platform for robotics and machine engineering; hardware foundation models that plug into CAD

Founded

2024

Headquarters

New York, New York, United States

Team size

1-10 employees

Industry

Desktop Computing Software Products

Sub-industry

AI-powered computational design software for robotics and machine engineering

Offices

New York City, NY, United States

London, England, United Kingdom

Business model

B2B SaaS

Funding

Stage

seed / grant-backed

Total raised

$655K

Latest round

Grant · Apr 2026

Latest amount

$30K

Grant

Apr 2026 · ABB

$30K

Pre-Seed Round

Jul 2025 · Y Combinator

$500K

Seed Round

May 2025

$125K

Grant (ARIA, £2.5M)

Mar 2025 · Advanced Research + Invention Agency (ARIA)

Corporate Round

Jan 2024

People & investors

Leadership

Co-Founder & CEO

Co-Founder & CTO

Head of Research

Vice President of Engineering

Investors

ABB

Advanced Research + Invention Agency (ARIA)

Work & culture

Research-heavy, technical, and customer-obsessed; the company emphasizes turning published research into product, shipping hardware-design tools faster, and serving robotics and automation customers.

Compensation

Public compensation data is limited. YC jobs listings showed London roles at £30K-£45K GBP for Chief of Staff and £40K-£110K GBP for a Founding Engineer role.

Product & market

Pricing

Not publicly disclosed; appears to be B2B enterprise software with pilot-based contracts.

Differentiators

—Generates and verifies hundreds of design candidates from parts, tasks, and constraints in minutes
—Produces ready-to-manufacture designs, programmable motions, and BOMs
—Focuses on robotics, machines, workcells, and other cyber-physical systems
—Combines CAD, simulation, optimization, and hardware foundation models
—Built on research from Harvard, MIT, and Carnegie Mellon expertise
—Already has paying customers and an ABB pilot/challenge win

Technology

CAD integration

hardware foundation models

generative AI

optimization algorithms

simulation

design verification

assembly-level CAD generation

2D technical drawings

bill of materials generation

motion planning

Customers

OEMs

system integrators

Scale & contact

hello@morpho.ai

Latest news

ABB Startup Challenge winners drive AI-powered energy innovation

ABB News Center · Apr 2026

ABB named MorphoAI a winner in its 2026 Startup Challenge, saying the company automates circuit breaker design and received $30k in collaboration funding for an ABB MVP pilot.

How MorphoAI Is Automating the Hardest Part of Hardware Engineering

HireTop · Jun 2025

A startup profile describing MorphoAI’s robot and machine design workflow, its AI/simulation/optimization pipeline, and early customer use cases.

MorphoAI is officially part of Y Combinator's X25 batch!

LinkedIn (Ayna Arora) · May 2025

Ayna Arora announced MorphoAI’s YC X25 acceptance, described the product, and said the company was backed by ARIA’s £2.5M grant and Four Cities Capital.

Launch YC: MorphoAI - AI-powered computer-aided invention for robotics and machine engineering

Y Combinator · May 2025

YC’s launch page describes MorphoAI as an AI-powered platform for robotics and machine engineering, says it had two paying customers, and reiterates the ARIA grant.

MorphoAI Secures $2.5M Grant to Accelerate Next-Generation Robotic Innovation

Signalbase · May 2025

A funding writeup states MorphoAI raised $2.5M in non-dilutive UK government support and explains the robotics/computational-design use case.

Jobs and careers at MorphoAI

9 jobs at MorphoAI

Product Manager (Protocol)

Remote

Product

Paris; France

2d ago

Remote

Full-time